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Shopping around for a mortgage: Urged but not often done

When it comes to mortgages, experience apparently isn't the best teacher. Recent findings by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which oversees mortgages and credit cards, among other things, show that almost half of U.S. borrowers don't shop for home loans.

CalHFA Announces Details of 2015 Mortgage Credit Certificate Program

The California Housing Finance Agency announced today the details of its 2015 Mortgage Credit Certificate program, a statewide program that enables first-time homebuyers to convert a portion of their annual mortgage interest into a direct dollar-for-dollar tax credit on their U.S.